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chap, in.] THE A USPICIOUSNESS OF DA YS.
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in detail the peculiar virtues of each day of the Zoro-
astrian month, and is entitled Madegane-laJc-Yom.
Great stress is laid in it upon the importance of
each day in its bearing upon certain relations and
transactions of life. Beginning with the first of the
month, which is the proper one to choose for entering
a new dwelling or garden, we find that every single
clay is set apart as the fittest and most auspicious for
certain special works, of either devotion or worldly
business. Some are best for beginning a journey or
voyage, others for the regulation of matters of
domestic economy, some again for social gatherings and
festivities, and others again for the pursuit of learning,
while not a few are reserved for rest and pious con-
templation. We thus find from a glance at the list
of days and their appropriate works that the Zoro-
astrian, in both his spiritual and his temporal life,
should be guided, in the selection of a proper time
for every new work, by a knowledge of the auspicious-
ness or otherwise of the several days of the month.
We therefore eive an Enoiish translation1 of Dastur
Adarbad's description of each day's significance as
being highly interesting and as showing what an
important part his teaching must have played in the
regulation of a Zoroastrian's life and conduct at that
period.
1 Translated from Pehlevi for the author by Dastur Darasha
Peshotanji Sanjana, B.A.
133
in detail the peculiar virtues of each day of the Zoro-
astrian month, and is entitled Madegane-laJc-Yom.
Great stress is laid in it upon the importance of
each day in its bearing upon certain relations and
transactions of life. Beginning with the first of the
month, which is the proper one to choose for entering
a new dwelling or garden, we find that every single
clay is set apart as the fittest and most auspicious for
certain special works, of either devotion or worldly
business. Some are best for beginning a journey or
voyage, others for the regulation of matters of
domestic economy, some again for social gatherings and
festivities, and others again for the pursuit of learning,
while not a few are reserved for rest and pious con-
templation. We thus find from a glance at the list
of days and their appropriate works that the Zoro-
astrian, in both his spiritual and his temporal life,
should be guided, in the selection of a proper time
for every new work, by a knowledge of the auspicious-
ness or otherwise of the several days of the month.
We therefore eive an Enoiish translation1 of Dastur
Adarbad's description of each day's significance as
being highly interesting and as showing what an
important part his teaching must have played in the
regulation of a Zoroastrian's life and conduct at that
period.
1 Translated from Pehlevi for the author by Dastur Darasha
Peshotanji Sanjana, B.A.